credit:  Emilyn Cordona

Cardinals at Radio Day Stage at Rivian Park

Mar 14, 2025

1:00pm – 1:40pm CT

Radio Day Stage at Rivian Park

Tracksuited, denim and leather clad and hidden behind wrap-around sunglasses, the Cork five-piece, Cardinals, look like they’ve just stepped out of Warhol's factory in Midtown Manhattan rather than the picturesque village of Kinsale, and yet to live in a Cardinals song is to be surrounded by a grainy, monochromatic landscape that holds both a gritty rock and roll nostalgia and the rolling hills of Ireland’s traditional musical past. Their pogues-leaning, shanty-esque verses swoon into room-filling chorus’, and often cloak dark and brooding tales of love in gentle first-person conversational narratives. Their critically acclaimed debut EP Cardinals, is an eclectic gothic amalgam of shoegaze, pop, Irish trad folk, and rock which incorporates 60s Wall of Sound and poetry inflected punk.

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Events featuring Cardinals

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11:10pm — 11:40pm
Presented by
High Road Touring
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Presented by
Music From Ireland
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3:30pm — 4:10pm
Presented by
SXSW DAY PARTY: FLOOD MAGAZINE
This performance is part of the showcase that starts on
Friday, March 14
Mar 15, 2025
1:00am — 1:50am
Presented by
BrooklynVegan
Primary Access
Free to the Public
About
From: Cork, Ireland
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Type: Showcase
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